Journalists are back in business in Iraq. If they can stay alive, that is.
In total 225 media professionals (journalists and their assistants) have been killed since the beginning of the invasion of coalition forces in March 2003. This conflict was the deadliest ever for the press. There were nearly four times more journalists killed in Iraq in six years, than during 20 years of the war in Vietnam.The years 2006 and 2007 were particularly deadly, with one journalist killed each week. In the vast majority of cases the killers come from armed groups fighting against the Iraqi central government and foreign troops. But more than a dozen journalists have been killed by American forces.
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